Journal of Environmental and Public Health
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 625461, 10 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/625461
Research Article

Time-Location Patterns of a Population Living in an Air Pollution Hotspot

Xiangmei (May) Wu,1,2 Zhihua (Tina) Fan,1,3 and Pamela Ohman-Strickland1,4

1Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
2Department of Public Health, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
3Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, UMDNJ, NJ 08854, USA
4Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, UMDNJ, NJ 08854, USA

Received 26 June 2009; Revised 2 November 2009; Accepted 8 February 2010

Academic Editor: Stuart A. Batterman

Copyright © 2010 Xiangmei (May) Wu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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